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It seems to be a rite of passage that "young adults" in the US (classified as those between the ages of 18 and 34, per the US Census Bureau) take a bit of guff from the generations that preceded them. Millennials, ID'd by Pew Research as those born between 1981 and 1997, haven't escaped this fate, but while many label the current younger set as simply hanging out "in the basement playing video games," as USA Today notes, that's not quite the case. The Census Bureau released a population report Wednesday that looks back at the 18-34 demographic over the past four decades, comparing today's young adults to those going back to 1975. "If one theme describes how adulthood has changed over the last 40 years, it is growing complexity," the report notes. A few notable trends stand out, and the internet is buzzing about them:

Parents who dread an empty nest can relax, because the Kansas City Star notes your millennial boarders may not be going anywhere anytime soon. In 2005, just 26% of young adults still shacked up with Mom and Dad, but that number settled in at around 34% in 2015—a 30% spike in just 10 years.

Per the Miami Herald, millennials seem to look more highly upon a good education than their predecessors, with 37% boasting at least a bachelor's degree in 2016, compared with 23% in 1975. The extra schooling likely explains a drop homeownership among millennials, from 52% in 1975 to 29% today.

You won't find millennials starting families as soon as they're done with that schooling, and women especially aren't as eager to be relegated to homemaker roles as past generations, NBC Washington reports. Economic security comes before marriage—and while about 84% of young men are in the workforce (a number that's stayed constant this whole time), that percentage has jumped from 50% to 70% for women since 1975.

A separate study finds that the most popular brands among millennials are Victoria's Secret, Sephora, and Nike, reports Bloomberg.

Pew Research dispels the myth that millennials are flakes when it comes to holding down a job, pointing out that millennials in 2016 stayed at their jobs for five years or longer at around the same numbers as Generation Xers did when they were the same age—and actually outpaced Gen Xers by a few percentage points when it came to sticking it out with an employer for 13 months or longer.

Did we hold seminars back to learn how to deal with Gen-x? Did they have seminars on how to deal with Baby boomers? No, but we just had a very expensive seminar last month on how to deal with Millennials because they expect different things than any previous generation. But this is really hurting them as we just won't hire them if we can get someone else. Why would I hire someone who could give a flip about anything but the paycheck. But since you may be interested, here's a free look at the takeaway from such a meeting. Be thankful, We spent about $20,000 to get this list created. 1- The greatest generation- WWI people, mostly dead. Really struggled for everything. Great Depression. Made their own butter. Grew victory gardens. Used ration cards 2- Traditionalists - Got through WWII and vastly birthed the baby boom. This is your "To get the stage of the Grand Ole Opry you must earn your spot" people. 3- Baby boomers - had way more than their parents or grandparents. A hard working people with the work ethic that you get a days pay for a day work. 4- Gen X - the kids of baby boomers who mostly got the sense of entitlement by way of the parents not wanting them to go through what they did by having 4 jobs just to graduate with no college debt. This is the Mr. Rogers generation who believed everybody was special just by being who you were and everybody got a trophy for showing up to the game even if they did not play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELo-yNFv6Y 5- Millennials- this is the generation who wants the CEO pay now for entry level jobs. This is your McDonalds people who state they work harder than police, fire, EMT, physicians, and such so they should get more pay than those people. This is vastly your generation who doesn't believe in a days work for days pay, they believe in a days pay for 1 hour of work. (except for my niece who does 2 days work for 1 days pay).

COLLECTOR123

Apr 21, 2017 8:22 AM CDT

Articles like this encourage the creation and continuation of stereotypes and simple descriptions of complex dynamics. Lumping individuals into a group and then describing the group ONLY by the commonalities insures that the RANGE of the group is overshadowed by the narrow, central description. Articles like this do nothing to encourage deeper thought and creation a fuller picture of the group. Sloppy thinking or more correctly, incomplete thinking.